Uncover the methodical process of designing a garage door, complete with the intricacies of showing the door's appearance when pulled up, and the inclusion of the power box that controls the door's movement. This detailed tutorial takes you step by step through the process, including the scaling and layering of the design.
Key Insights
- The tutorial demonstrates how to represent the garage door realistically when it's pulled up, by drawing lines from the door's end upward, with careful measurements and adjustments.
- A detailed process is laid out for including the power control box which operates the door; this involves offsetting lines to mark the dimensions of the box, followed by trimming out unnecessary parts.
- Attention is given to line type and scaling, as the design moves to the overhead view of the garage. The tutorial explains how to load a specific 'dashed to line type' into the drawings, adjust line type scale, and make global scale factor modifications to achieve the desired visual effect.
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We've already drawn one of the garage doors as if the door were closed, but if you look at the handout, you will see that we're also showing the garage door on the ceiling when it's pulled up, and we're also showing the power control box that lifts and lowers the garage door. So I'm going to start off by drawing a line from the end of the door up 7'6", and I'm going to copy this line from the end to the end. I'm also going to copy it to the middle of the door, so this line that I've just selected will represent the center line of the entity that pulls up the garage door.
Now, this entity right here, the guideline, will end up being 2' wide, so I'm going to offset by 1' either way that line and erase my center line. I'm going to zoom in and trim out, so I'm going to say Trim, and trim out this part down here. I'm now going to draw a line from the end to the end of the garage door, and I'm going to start working on the power box now.
I'm going to offset by 6' and by 18' to show the power box. I'm going to draw a line from the mid of the door straight up and offset by 6' either side these entities, then I'm going to fill it. I'm just going to choose the multiple setting and go pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick.
I'm going to erase out my center line, and I'm going to extend up to the bottom of the power box these entities, and then I will trim out, here are my cutting edges, trim out that line segment right there, and I'm going to save the file. But if you look at the handout, you'll notice that all of these entities are not solid, but rather they are a dashed line type of some sort, so I need to migrate these to a line type. They're still on the door layer.
I'm simply reflecting that they're on the overhead portion, so they're going to be above us. So the first thing I need to do is I need to load a dashed to line type into the drawing. So I've gone to the properties interface, and I'm going to load the dashed to line type.
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So again, we have dashed, dashed to, dashed by to, and just realize that this is the smallest, the next larger, and the largest. Dashed to, okay, and go okay. So I've now loaded the dashed to line type into the drawings.
I'm going to select the geometry, and instead of using the by layer line type, I want them to be using the dashed to line type. I hit escape. It looks solid.
If I zoom window in there, you can see that, in fact, it is a dashed to line type, but again, the issue is now line type scale. I'm in my model file. In my model file, I want to have my line type scale calculated in model space, reflecting the anticipated scale factor.
Now, this drawing will end up being at a quarter inch equals a foot, so I'm going to go up to format, going to go down to line type. I'm going to give the drawing a global scale factor of 48, not calculated in paper space. So again, I'm in the model file.
I know that when I end up going with my sheet files, I'm going to be plotting these at a quarter inch equals a foot, so I'm accepting a global scale factor for this drawing of 48, calculated in model space, not using paper space, and go okay, and I save the file. But, if you notice, the scale factor of these lines is larger than what we have on the handout. So, what I want to do is I want to give these a global line type scale factor that will scale them down slightly.
So, I'm going to be selecting the geometry, and then doing a right button, choosing properties, and again, remember that when we created the drawing, in the model file, we said that the drawing itself has a global scale factor of 48, and the line type scale factor that's being used on all of the drawings is a multiplier of the base scale factor of 48. So, I want to make these 75% as large, and I hit ENTER, and it's made them look slightly smaller and a little bit nicer to see. So, now again, I drew the geometry, I drew the geometry on the door layer, the drawing has a scale factor of 48, a line type scale factor of 48, and I've said to make these specific entities have a percentage of that line type scale factor, so I've let them be 75% of normal.
I now want to copy these and the door. I'm going to say from the end of the opening to the end of the opening. I hit escape, and I save that, so we now have the garage doors done with the overhead aspects done.
I'm seeing that pretty much everything else is done on the drawing for the doors, and so I'm going to save the file. And we'll come back in a couple of minutes, and we'll start working on our wall patterns. So, I'm saving the file, and I'll see you in a few seconds.
